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Mr. Jarr Takes a Night Off (1915)
Short | Short, Comedy

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Mr. Jarr Takes a Night Off (1915)

Short | Short, Comedy

Mr. Jarr is stuck by Fritz, the shipping clerk in the office where they work, for two tickets for the ball to be given as a benefit for the Human Uniques, side-show freaks, put out of business by the hard time and moving pictures. Fritz's ...See moreMr. Jarr is stuck by Fritz, the shipping clerk in the office where they work, for two tickets for the ball to be given as a benefit for the Human Uniques, side-show freaks, put out of business by the hard time and moving pictures. Fritz's sister, Fatima, the professionally fat lady, is the head of the movement. Mrs. Jarr happens to find the tickets in her husband's pockets that night, and at once decides he is leading a double life. A quarrel results, but Jarr goes to the ball just the same, taking with him Dinkston, the Harlem poet. Jarr dances with the Circassian beauty, and Dinkston with the fair Fatima, causing great jealousy on the part of Malachi Hogan, a scrappy little Irishman, who is in love with Fatima. Mrs. Jarr, worried over her husband's "night off," leaves the children in charge of Claude, the fireman (Gertrude, the servant girl's beau) and sallies forth to watch Mr. Jarr. As she arrives at the ball, Fatima and Malachi have a row, she trips and falls to the floor, smashing a big hole in it. She crashes through, with Malachi. onto the heads of a bunch of gunmen who are holding a ball on the floor below. A terrific riot and shooting fray follows, the police reserves are called out and everyone arrested. In the interim, Claude, the fireman, seeing flames shooting out from the building, feels it is his call to duty, and after thoroughly drenching the Jarr children, to render them "fireproof," rushes out. The grouchy Magistrate in the night court sentences all the revelers to sixty days in jail, including Mr. and Mrs. Jarr, but Jarr has sufficient presence of mind to telephone Gus, the saloon keeper, who is a powerful politician, and he has everybody turned loose with an apology. The Jarrs return home to their wet and wailing offspring, with a determination to stop the nights out. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Harry Davenport Mr. Jarr Mr. Jarr See fewer	Gone with the Wind (1939)
Rose Tapley Mrs. Jarr Mrs. Jarr See fewer	As You Like It (1912)
Audrey Berry Emma Jarr Emma Jarr See fewer	The Jarr Family Discovers Harlem (1915)
Paul Kelly Willie Jarr Willie Jarr See fewer	Flying Tigers (1942)
Sabel Johnson Fatima Fatima See fewer	The Jazz Girl (1926)
Harry Fisher Actor (as Harry Fischer) Actor (as Harry Fischer) See fewer	The Faith of Sonny Jim (1915)
Nicholas Dunaew Actor Actor See fewer	Siberia (1926)